"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."

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"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way."

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Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."

Edith Wharton, American Author

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"Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue's awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue's wonder made it holy."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Imagination is probably the most remarkable thing that exist in the universe."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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"Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?"

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."

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"The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have."

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